<p>In my high school graduating class, a classmate committed suicide the night before graduation.
Then, everyone learned about it the morning before graduation.
I’m a freshman in college now.
If someone committed suicide their choice shouldn’t be horrifying … Everyone in life has this option, to take an exit. It’s not to fear, dying is natural. When someone makes this choice, it is part of fate. A sad thing to those who live, but really a neutral thing. Many times, the person does not hold worries about the present life which they leave, yet the others grieve…
At my graduation, I felt it was more disrespectful to the memory of that person to say words that they wouldn’t have spoken or try to glorify it (which it was, to make the graduation still “happy”). If someone means to go, they go. Respect their wish for afterlife… Don’t speculate or put on a face of horror. It is something everyone will feel differently that will be mixed into their experiences, so the best thing I think is to be silent and respectful in this way.</p>